POET ON A BUSINESS TRIP
Ju Anqi

O.V. Mandarin

The suits have their professional meetings in faraway cities, but what is a business trip like for a poet? That’s exactly what Shu, an accomplished young Chinese poet, sets out to learn by travelling to the autonomous region of Xinjuang, whose name means, fittingly, “new frontier.” He meets people and explores the place (often in dingy brothels, mean streets or seedy inns), in a journey presented in sixteen parts corresponding to the poems he writes along the way. In Ju...